Being a motor journalist has some really wonderful perks, like free overnight, after-hours access to any Sizzler's salad bar. I think my favorite perk is that you can often convince motor museums to let you actually drive some of their cars. Which is exactly what I did at the fantastic Lane Motor Museum.

From the French L'Acadiane is derived Cajun, and from that is derived tasty southern cookin'. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Citroën Acadiane could cart your crawdads, but will you find its price palatable?

If necessity is the big, fat momma of invention, these Gypsy refugees from Kosovo are its scruffy patriarchs. Like modern day, beyond-the-pale Tom Joads, these guys get along by turning classic Citro n 2CV and Dyane models into functional rat rods that double as farm implements. This clip is from the documentary…